Blm Nerfing?Follow

I've only heard that our fellow blms are going to be getting nerfed. I've heard that they're only gonna nerf blms when there is more then one in a party, and I've heard that they're nerfing blms all together.

So whats the deal? Is there anything officially release from SE about this? I've checked playonline.com and couldn't find anything in regards to this issue. If anyone could find any more confirmed info please post the link and I'd be most happy.

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This is off of FFXIOnline from someone who was at the Fan Festival


blm

acknowledged one of the most powerful
acknowledged that 6 blm can pwn, but not necessary how they envisioned it
try to make it so they play in regular parties more
but giving them more spells to "compensate" so it doesn't seem they are picking on blm

Check here for other info on changes coming (i.e. Warriors getting to throw Axes :-)
http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/general.ffxi.discussion/53859-final.fantasy.xi.fan.festival.2006.report.html

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10;mid=114203607569219833;num=20;page=1




So, as of yet, what they are planning, blm's are NOT being nerfed. Just being made more versatile, being given more spells so that regular parties will 'want' them more. I don't know what kind of spells would prompt a 'regular' party to want it more, AND to make a blm 'want' to go join a 'regular' party over a manaburn.

After about lvl 68, manaburn exp is not much hotter than good normal pt exp. Plus if it screws up you have a lot of dead blms eating an r2 at best (from RR hairpin).

You'd be shocked how bad manaburns can be sometimes. A lot of blms out there are quite thick ; ;

Also from what I've heard, melee burn pts in sky and KRT blow manaburn exp away in the endgame.

If /war doesn't give you voke then war would be the only tank. Even Pld would have hate problems without voke. They won't do that it would be just plain stupid.

Blackangels can you say "death"

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You only say that because you're a BST.
500 exp for 1 death is not much. But if you die repeatedly for 1 week at level 75, you'll delevel back to 74 in no time.

And seeking for buffer party at 75 sucks for some jobs <.<



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That is utter crap. There are places where a BLM can manaburn and double or triple a regular xp party in experience points. Hell I can duo xp in Sea and get Chain 3 to the tune of about 1100xp for killing 4 mobs. And the poster that said you lose little more xp with R2 is right. It's not that big of a deal.

And to the person that says they die all the time and delevel and find it hard to get parties to get a buffer...what game are you playing? Go to the Range and duo Buffalo...you'll have a capped buffer in a few days.

And lastly, why is everyone freaking out about a nerf. No one knows what will happen. SE is not dumb...and they wont make a change that will cause hundreds of people to quit. Yes, the developers said a few things but they were vary vague and by no means give us a real idea of what is going to happen. Just relax about it and when the changes come, we'll adapt to them...like we always do.

Everyone knows that the greater good was served by eliminating a MPK threat. That is what SE did and it is a smart thing to do. They also tweaked BST to make them more pt friendly. It's not a nerf, but a change. There are too many close minded people in this game that are afraid to adapt and make a change...what do you do in real life? Blame it on someone or something else because you dont like? Or do you grin and think of a way to make it work?

Or perhaps you would prefer that they don't address MPK so everyone can go along and continue to kill people everytime they want a claim to something.

It appears that the people who complain and moan about this are the same people that make posts like yours...a poorly worded statement at best with no support of your opinion.

Edited, Wed Mar 15 13:00:18 2006 by kevindragotto

I want to know too.
That would be so absolutely ridiculous.

You know, I've adapted to every nerf, every change they threw at us. I didn't growl or ***** about it, I moved on, I adapted.

But I seriously have an absolute issue if you sub war, you can't voke anymore. What happens to our NIN's and PLD's? Who complained to SE this was needed?

Next people will complain SATA is too powerful, so if you sub THF, you won't be able to SATA your WS. Think about it.

I seriously hope this is just not true.

Of course I care. One of my points was that there are reasons that SE does what they do. And for the most part, they all make sense.

What I was trying to get across is that when changes happen, people do two things. They either complain and argue and moan, or they adapt. If a change makes the game less fun for you, then leave. I am not forcing you to play and niether is SE. From that perspective though, SE will do its utmost to keep its customers. It'd be bad business to do any less.

I swear that when SE announces something, the conspiracy theorists crawl out from under their desks and get to typing. Everything is an attack and nothing is for the greater good....this attitude that pervades these boards is what makes the game less fun. It's not the changes that suck, it's the people that constantly complain about them. Leave then....do something different.

Sorry if my manaburn party remark was a tad jaded, I've had some terrible manaburn parties whilst leveling. Not sure how it was when you were climbing the ladder, but the majority of blms I've partied with of late semm to either a) lack sense or b) common decency.

Blm does not need nerfed, but I wouldn't complain if they introduced something to make BCNM and mission fights non-manaburnable.

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that is udder CRAP, i am a 75 brd, i have been in all the parties, blm, smn, war, mnk,etc....., and after 72 73ish, mnk parties are by far the fastest exp i have ever seen at close to 12k exp in under an hour at the fastest, 9k exp/hour at avg. i have rarely ever seen a mana burn party get past chain 5, while mnk in krt and war in sky parties can get over chain 20 if no other parties are around. the avg party in sky that i have been to can kill 2 mobs in the time it takes a blm to cast an ancient magic spell. none of the balanced parties ive been in after getting to level 73(esp if we roam) have ever wanted a blm in the party. so if SE makes manaburn parties useless and
didnt give them more versatility in other areas,hardly any blm could get to lvl 75 or into merit parties.the timing is crucial in manaburns, plan is simple enough, but 1 slip in timing you got a bunch of dead blms. yes blm are uber powerful
but they are uber weak, so if deal that much more dmg than the other DDs they will die fast and not be dealing any damage at all. their power and their weakness balances each other out in my opinion. so i dont feel nerfing of a blm is needed.



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